Chicken fried...

Last night, the hubster and I had a quite eventful evening... for us at least. We did a home inspection of a recently adopted rescue dog AND went to a Zac Brown Band concert. Just writing this sounds so busy and random.

First the adorable pup.....A dear old-college roomie of mine, who lives just outside of Chicago, helps save puppies on the side. She volunteers with Starfish. I was contacted by her to conduct a home visit for a recent pup adopted by a gal who lives in downtown Indy. So the hubster and I left for our downtown concert a bit early and stopped by the new home of a shorkie named Celeste. We met the new pup mommy and toured her apartment. As the hubster checked off the yes's and no's on the home visit checklist, I admired the cutely decorated tiny apartment and chatted with the new mom and adorable Celeste. It was different and fun and I am glad we were able to not only help out my former roomie, but also a great adoption program and an adorable pup and mom.

The concert.....We then headed for parking downtown. I just so happened to pick the parking garage next to Indy's recently added Kilroy's. (Yes, the Kilroy's from Bloomington) (( YES, they have the pizza filled bread sticks. Hence, my selection of that parking garage.)) We stopped in for a quick bite, and beer for the hubster and then headed to Conseco field house for our concert.

(Side note): At this point, I must confess, I don't really like concerts. They are too crowded, with drunk people. The hubster loves them. In fact before we met, he used to hit 3 concerts a year, at least. Since we met in 06, I think he has been to about 3 total. So, with it being his birthday week and all, I agreed to go.
Sadly, I didn't really know the band I was agreeing to go see. I knew one of my besties loves them, so they must be decent, but I couldn't name a song if you asked me. After a little bit of googling and contemplating purchasing some cowboy boots (always searching for reasons for new shoes), I was actually looking forward to the concert.

Once at the concert, our seats were great and the entertainment was excellent. On a disappointing note, the acoustics in Conseco Fieldhouse are HORRIBLE. However, Zac Brown still sounded good, which makes me wonder how blown away we would have been in a better venue. Sadly, the only other concert I had been to at Conseco was a rap concert, DMX to be exact (don't judge. I was 19.) I now have a greater appreciation for concerts where people actually sing and venues that compliment their singing.

We left the concert just in time to beat the crowd out, but also enough time to stop and write a letter to a solider oversees in exchange for a Zac Brown Band C.D. I would have written the letter without the bribe of a C.D. But am excited to keep the hubster's C.D. for our self and send the other one to a dear friend who is currently stationed in Pakistan, with a personalized letter of course.

I think that is what I liked most about the Zac Brown Band... they were fun and there to have a good time, but had a great message and program promoting sending love and messages to the troops. It left me feeling very grateful and entertained. What a great combo.

We returned home to our own pups (more on them in a future post). It was a great date night for the hubster and I. We agreed we need to do more outings like that. Random ones, that make us happy afterwards that we did them!


P.S. I have since downloaded four of their songs, with plans of purchasing cowboy boots in the near future.